Winning A World Championship, in my own way! - Norris

2025-12-11T21:51:16Z

In some ways, I still can't believe it! I am a Formula 1 World Champion. I have done what all of us racing drivers dream of, right from when we step into karts for the first time as kids: to be the best driver in the world. I didn't even expect it here! But I can say now, despite all the challenges I've faced through this year, I made it out on top. And I did it, fair and square, as myself. I've been told by rivals in the outerworld, and other team bosses time and time again that I didn't have the makings of a Champion. I was 'too soft', too emotional, too critical on myself. And I made plenty of mistakes, I didn't have a perfect season like some champions did. But I didn't give up. I couldn't. This was the chance I had been waiting for, for 7 years, staying with McLaren for this chance... a car that could win the title, and all I needed now was to get it right. Winning a race is one thing, and I cried when I first won in Miami in 2024, just as I did stepping out of the car last weekend knowing I was a world champion! But the two achievements are worlds apart, and it took so, so much more to win the world championship.

( Reading time: 7-8 minutes. )

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Sempre Senna: My Experiences As A Factive. - Senna

2025-11-15T22:57:09Z

(Reading Time: 12-15 minutes.)

My name is Ayrton Senna de Silva. I am a factive in the Riders and Racers system, and I have been one of the Racers here for a long time. I likely arrived here in 2016, appearing here and there as a consistent force in our still-undiscovered plurality. We always had an affinity for my life. A feeling of closeness, of familiarity, in my determination, and my drive to win. Strangely strong emotions welling up at my first home win in 1991, a feeling of pride and the feeling of victory we could never quite place, describe, or know where it came from. Quotes from my outerworld life saved in our phone camera roll, which we looked at to help us get through the day, and ground us during anxiety. Reading them brought me into front to help us, even if we lacked the language to describe the feeling of switching, or to describe the fact and fictionhood we experienced. I eventually went dormant for some time, likely falling dormant in 2022. I was woken back up in January 2024, as we began our second semester of university and our old amnesiac barriers began to fall down. However, I had a life before I came here, too. Here is my story.

( Content warning for death, car accidents. )

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Winning A World Championship, in my own way! - Norris

Sempre Senna: My Experiences As A Factive. - Senna